87 Eagle Squadron Welland Air Cadets
435 River Road L3B 5N6 Fonthill, ON, Canada

https://87eagle.ca/2020/poinsettia-and-porch-pot-fundraiser/ The poinsettia and porch pot sale has returned! With the challenges of 2020, Vermeer’s Garden Centre has set up a website for our fundraiser. 1. Simply follow the link to the fundraiser website and select the products you would like to purchase: https://vermeers.ca/product-category/fundraiser/... 2. When you select a product, there is a drop down menu to select the fundraiser you would like to support, select Welland Air Cadets. 3. Orders can be picked up at Vermeer’s, or you can have them delivered direct to your home!

The story of the "Night Witches"; the courageous Russian women that flew 30,000 missions during WWII and dumped 23,000 tons of Bombs!

#MyCAFStory #WHM2020 #WomensHistoryMonth #CAFCareers

We are inviting Cadets, JCRs, staff, and families to share with us why you remember. Send us a message and we will share the instructions on how to participate ...in our virtual project. Starting November 5th, we will share the submissions, and show Canadians the strength of our youth, and commitment to remembrance. Canada Remembers /// Nous invitons les cadets, les RJC, notre personnel et les familles de nos cadets à partager avec nous les raisons pour lesquelles il est important de se souvenir. Envoyez-nous un message et nous vous expliquerons comment participer à notre projet virtuel du jour du Souvenir 2020. À partir du 5 novembre, nous partagerons les soumissions et montrerons aux Canadiens la force de notre jeunesse et son engagement envers la commémoration de cette date importante. Le Canada se Souvient

As a young woman, Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture (known simply as Edith Monture) was determined to become a nurse. She was a gifted student, but as a Mohawk w...oman from the Six Nations Grand River Reserve near Brantford, Ontario, she faced barriers to pursuing higher education. Eventually, she was accepted into New York’s New Rochelle Nursing School where she graduated first in her class in 1914, becoming the first Indigenous registered nurse in Canada. When the United States entered the First World War, she became the first Indigenous woman from Canada to serve in the US military by volunteering for the United States Army Nurse Corps. For more than a year, she worked alongside Canadian nurses doing the emotionally draining and physically exhausting work of treating injured soldiers across battlefields and in Vittel, France. While Indigenous women as a whole could not vote federally until 1960, the Military Service Act (1917) allowed wartime nurses the right to vote. This made Edith one of the first Indigenous woman from Canada to gain the right to vote in a Canadian federal election. After the war, Edith continued her nursing career and eventually returned to her reserve to start a family. She continued to advocate for better Indigenous health care and worked as a nurse and midwife in a hospital at the reserve until 1955. Edith Monture was a pioneer for Indigenous healthcare and women. Her legacy has left an indelible mark on the community with a street and park in Brantford being named in her memory. Be a part of our history: https://forces.ca/en/women-in-the-caf/ #WHM2020 #WomensHistoryMonth #Women #ThrowbackThursday #ForcesJobs #CAF #Canada #